. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . 5i;attv. facing us—a long line, extending farbeyond the flanks of Harkers little brigade, with a secondline rai>idly forming in their rear. We (piote IVom the report of JJrig. Gen. Joseph : About U oclock I was onUred forward to report to Major GeneralH(>o(l. (leneral Hood directed me to form line in his rear. Forming line(Humphreys on my left) as rapidly as possible under tire of the enemy andin a thick wood, 1 moved as directed to the front. 1 crossed t
. Opdycke tigers, 125th O. V. I., a history of the regiment and of the campaigns and battles of the Army of the Cumberland . 5i;attv. facing us—a long line, extending farbeyond the flanks of Harkers little brigade, with a secondline rai>idly forming in their rear. We (piote IVom the report of JJrig. Gen. Joseph : About U oclock I was onUred forward to report to Major GeneralH(>o(l. (leneral Hood directed me to form line in his rear. Forming line(Humphreys on my left) as rapidly as possible under tire of the enemy andin a thick wood, 1 moved as directed to the front. 1 crossed the LaFayetteroad near a house (Brothertons), and, crossing the oi>en ground, enteredthe woods beyond and ])roceeded nearly to what I understood to be theCove road. The firing on my right became vi-ry heavy, and a jiortion ofGeneral Hoods division fell back along my line. 1 changed front almostperpendicularly to the right on (olonel Nances Third South Carohna regi-ment, my left center, which I ha<l indicated as the directing battalion. Theenemy occupied a skirt of wood on the farther side of a field around Dyers. (• ir(;.i — s/-:co\/) /m: 109 House, Ills ri>:lit cxtciiiliii^ into llic wood the Iiis Iclt no^vin^tlie Cove i(i;i(l. His <iil(»rs were (istcutiitioiisly (lisi)l;tyti| nluii;. tlic lines. The l 11 Is division (-ajra^ed in my front liad jnst retired when I ordered tlie advance, (hrectinj: Colonel Hene-ran (Ki^ihth Snnth Carolina)to extend to the rif^iit and en>ra much as ;sii)le, andthere
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